Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18

I hate what this update has done to my photos. I have all my albums but they are all empty or have just one or two pics in them. And can’t find the rest of the pics in photos anywhere. This is so disappointing. I can’t find favorite Ms album at all. Why does an update cause this much chaos? Bad move Apple

StCloudMN wrote:

What do I have to do to see your response? This was my experience as well and I want a response! Please.

The person to whom you're responded, TulsaGB, is the original poster. A glance through the thread seems to indicate that they have never returned. So, no response to see.

However, there are six pages of responses from other people. I suggest you go to the top of the page, just under the original post on the right side, and change "Sort by" to either "Oldest" or "Newest." That will put the thread in chronological order. You may find it easier to follow the conversation that way.

Hello, everyone.

TulsaGB wrote:

Cannot locate my Albums in Photos. HELP!

rgashton wrote:

Lost my albums in photos , how do find them easily?

It’s simple:

Open Photos. On the top, you will see the photo grid, and on the bottom you will see the collections view.

Scroll down.

You will eventually find your albums under the header “Albums” in small tiles that have a key photo on the left and a title on the right.

Click one to open it.

If you want your Albums at or closer to the top, then scroll to the bottom of the collections view and tap “Customize & Reorder.” You can then reorganize where your collections are and choose the collections you want.

I hope this helps!

Might be true for you. But many of mine are gone. Even with help from Apple techs. My albums, many are gone.

some folk here are supporting the change, or at least accepting by stating they “found” their albums… it’s not true fir everyone.

I have albums with a huge ZERO pictures inside.

I used to love the quick and easy process of moving photos from one album to another. Now it is such a process because you can’t drag the pictures quickly and easily. Not a

happy at all with this. Bring back the album functionality.

I’m not happy at all with the update either. It’s not as intuitive as before. There are way too many steps to find anything now. Can we step back to the previously “perfect” version? If so let me know how.

How I wish this was true for all of us!! I seem to be relatively lucky that I have only 'lost' about 8 albums and really only one of them was really important. I have checked Albums> and the missing ones are definitely not there, nor in deleted nor anywhere else I can find.

Also why do the photos in the albums which are there appear on the lower part of the screen whilst at the top of the screen the whole album is running one by one a though I've clicked a forward arrow as in pictures on Microsoft. I just want my 'Cards' album to come back and for photos to 'sit still' until I move them.

The albums are not gone, but for my big library it took days for all to rearrange. In addition album search on random occations show the wrong search results, and as such renders itself useless. Searching for a specific name on one day shows all albums starting with that name, on other days the search results for same name only shows ⅓ of those.

margo m. wrote: "Where is a response from Apple??"

margo m ~ Not in these user-to-user communities. You can get a response from Apple here:

Contact Apple for support and service

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donnafromcanmore wrote: "...There are way too many steps to find anything now..."

donna ~ See if this helps:

Customize the Photos app on iPhone - Apple Support

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All of my photo albums have disappeared after Ios 18 install. Very annoying as about to move house and have saved sll my room schemes in albums. Disappointed to say the least!

Thank you!!! Panic over!

this was super helpful thank you!!

Ok, found it, it is in Pinned Collections

This helped! My albums were there!!